Drawer-guide



- Patented Feb. 28, I899. T. HANSON.

DRAWER GUIDE.

(A umion'mea Oct. 14, 1898.)

(No Model.)

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THORVALD HANSON, OF EAU CLAIRE, WISCONSIN.

DRAWER-GUIDE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 620,447, dated February28, 1899. Application filed October 14, 1898. Serial No- 693,482. (Nomodel.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, THORVALD HANSON, of Eau Claire, in the county of EauClaire and State of Wisconsin, have invented new and useful Improvementsin Drawer-Guides, of which the following is a full, clear, and exactdescription.

This invention-relates to drawer-guides adapted for adjustment to takeup lateral looseness that may result from shrinkage or wear of thedrawer or the frame it is heldto slide in, and has for its object toprovide a novel simple device of the character indicated which will becapable of general application upon structures having slidable drawers,which will be very convenient to adjust, and that may be produced at alow cost.

The invention consists in the novel construction and combination ofparts, as is hereinafter described, and indicated in the claims.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings, forminga part ofthis specification, in which similar characters of reference indicatecorresponding parts in all the figures.

Figure 1 is a front elevation, partly in section, of a rectangular framehavinga drawer therein held in place by the improvements. Fig. 2 is asectional plan view of the frame and part of the drawer, taken on theline 2 2 in Fig. 1, the improved drawer-guide being represented in placeby full and dotted lines; and Fig. 3 is a transverse sectional viewsubstantially on the line 3 3 in Fig. 1.

The rectangular frame 10 may be the body of a portable cabinet or anyother structure, wherein the drawer 11 is adapted to slide back andforth through an opening at the front of said frame. The frame 10 mayhave a bottom wall 10, which is joined at the side edges upon the lowerportions of the vertical parallel sides 10, and preferably at thecorners where the sidewalls 10 join the bottom 1O an angular recess a isformed at each side of the frame, as clearly shown at the righthand sidein Fig. 1. In each right-angular recess a a guide-strip 12 is seated,said strip being L-shaped in cross-section, thus providing a bottom andside wall for each guidestrip. The side and bottom portions of eachguide-strip 12 have less width, respectively, than the side and bottomwalls of the recess a, so that the strips may be freely moved a limiteddistance toward or from each other on the bottom 10.

The drawer 11 has its side walls extended a proper distance below thebottom, as usual, which will permit the lower edges of the sides of thedrawer to rest on the horizontal mem-' bers of the guide-strips 12, asshown at one corner of the drawer in Fig. 1.

The bottom wall 10-of the frame 10 mayin some cases be dispensed withand a front cross-strip 10 be provided as a support and finish at thefront of the frame below the drawer, or there may be a close bottomfurnished, as shown in the drawings, the lattermentioned constructionbeing necessary in case the drawer-support is part of a box or cabinet.

When a close bottom 10 is employed as part of the frame 10, the frontfinishing-strip 10 is of any preferred thickness and the main portion ofthe bottom is thinner, thereby producing a shallow recess throughout thearea of the bottom behind the front strip 10, and it will be seen thatin each case the level parts of the two right-angular recesses a at theside lower corners within the frame 10 are formed in the top surface ofthe front strip 10. A metal cross-bar 13 is seated in the shallow recessof the bottom wall 10, along the inner surface of the front strip10, andis thereto secured by the two screw-bolts b, that pass throughperforations in the crossbar and respectively formed near the ends ofthe same, as indicated in Fig. 2. The heads of the bolts 1) areflattened and transversely perforated, said-perforations being threadedto receive two adjusting-screws c, that have their end portions whichproject through the bolt-heads'toward the guide-strips l2screwed intointegral nuts 0, formed on the lower faces of said guide-strips.

On the crossbar 13 two an gularly-bent arms 61 are formed or secured,the members d of which incline toward each other and are spaced from thesides of a triangular projection or abutment e, that is fixed on theinner side of the frame-strip 10 at its center of length.

The guide-strips 12 extend a suitable length rearwardly over the shallowrecess in the bottom 10 of the frame 10, and near the rear ends of theguide-strips a depending nut g is formed nuts g, wherein they arescrewed.

or secured on the lower side of each guidestrip, as indicated by dottedlines in Fig. 2.

Two elongated adjusting-screws h are pro.- vided, which are headed, asat h, on one end of each and screw-threaded on their opposite ends. Theadj listing-screws h are loosely inserted through lateral perforationsin the members (1 of the bent arms d, so that the bodies of said screwswill project diagonally in opposite directions over the recessed portionof the bottom 10 toward the depending When the parts of the improveddevice are assembled as described, and best shown in Fig. 2, it will beseen that the heads lb of the adjustingscrews it have a loose bearingagainst the adj acent sides of the triangular projecting abutment e,which prevents a recession of the bolts, but permits their rotation bymeans of a wrench applied upon the heads of the bolts.

It will be evident that when objectionable lateral play is had by thedrawer 11, due either to shrinkage of the material composing the draweror the frame wherein the drawer slides, an adjustment of the screws 0and h manually will effect a correction of the objectionable loosenessby drawing the upright members of the guide-strips 12 toward each othera proper degree, and in case the drawer binds a spreading adjustment ofthe guidestrips to obviate such an impediment to the free slidingmovement of the drawer may be produced by a reverse adjustment of thescrews 0 and h.

Having thus described my invention, I

claim as new and desire to secure by Lettersv Patent-- l. Thecombination with a frame, and a drawer slidable therein, of two L-shapedguide-strips loosely disposed on the frame, two short adjusting-screwsnear the front of the frame, and two diagonally-extended adjusting-screws, the four adjusting-screws be in g loosely held on theframe, and having threaded engagement with the guide-strips,substantially as described.

2. The combination with a box or the like, and a drawer slidable througha front opening of said box, of two guide-strips L-shaped in cross-section, and loosely seated in the lower side corners of the box toafford support for the lower side corners of the drawer,

nuts on the guide-strips and pairs of screws adjustable at the front ofand within the box, one pair at each side thereof, said screws engagingthe nuts 011 the guide-strips for the adjustment of said strips,substantially as described.

3. The combination with the frame of a box or the like, and adrawer-slidable through an opening at the front of the frame, of twoguidestrips, right angular in cross section and seated in the lower sidecorners of said frame,

nuts on the guide-strips, a cross-bar on the in- THORVALD HANSON.

Witnesses:

G. J. LosBY. CHAS. W. FISKE.

